The Alchemy of the Rewrite
New sources around alchemy:
"Alchemy: The Poetry of Matter" by Brian Cotnoir
The Ezra Klein Show: This Conversation Made Me a Sharper Editor -- talks about the process of creating something from nothing, super relevant to drafting and the experience of the "rewrite" from a visual artist perspective.
The Ezra Klein Show: Best of: George Saunders on Kin
Students are frequently unwilling to rewrite, because rewriting suggests to them that what they wrote the first time is wrong, and they don't like that feeling. But it's not that, it's just that writing is a process and you are cleaning up the language.
It's not that you're changing it: you're doing it better, hitting a higher note or a deeper tone ... See more
It's not that you're changing it: you're doing it better, hitting a higher note or a deeper tone ... See more